Gangstar: New Orleans. Gangstar New Orleans: hopes were not met
Android OS: 4.0+
Latest version: 1.0.0n
In Russian: yes
Game Gangstar: New Orleans for Android- a popular gangster story. Being a tough and dangerous gangster, you come to New Orleans to conquer the metropolis with your ambitions, to establish control over the gangs and the government. Fully at your service open world Orleans, which can be controlled different ways, establishing their own rules, orders and laws. The city should become the capital of a gangster empire, but many do not share your ideas, wanting to destroy your thoughts and connections.
Features of the game Gangster New Orleans on Android:
- Build your own career, resolve conflicts with gangs, move in any direction around the city
- Seize power over the territory of the metropolis, fight battles with gangs, sects, police, officials, etc.
- Explore city neighborhoods, poor slums, elite areas, creepy streets and new buildings
- Complete interesting missions and tasks, take part in shootouts, get weapons and authority on the streets
- Use a ton of settings, items and clothing to create a unique hero as you wish
Gangstar: New Orleans features brutal battles and real-time battles for power and control over certain areas of the city. Fight with real players or bots, greedy cops and crazy fanatics. A huge arsenal of the powerful weapons, walks and entertainment in hot spots. All the cards are in your hands, and only you can decide what the empire will be like. Download the game Gangstar: New Orleans for Android and go to New Orleans to make the right connections, find allies, establish full influence over the city and reach the pinnacle of glory.
Over the past year and a half, things have been going badly for mobile gaming giant Gameloft. A decent number of studios have closed; the free to play model offered by the French has not justified itself. But early this summer, Vivendi bought a stake in Gameloft, becoming its new owner. Some time later, a short video appeared online demonstrating games that would be released in 2016-2017. Among them was Gangstar New Orleans.
The 17-second video immediately surprised fans, who noticed the new comic style, previously used in the completely unsuccessful BiA3. Nothing else was known about the game. And now, almost a month after the scheduled release date, a new game series appears in App Store Philippines.
Let's start with the plot. The game starts with a short cutscene. It shows us a carnival disrupted by an explosion. He was satisfied main character- a ruthless biker who came to New Orleans for profit. Quite a strange decision. The hero doesn't appeal to us at all. And if in Gangstar Rio and Gangstar Vegas the protagonists also did dark things, in general their motives were more or less noble - to destroy the mafiosi, for example, and not to shoot everyone, kill cops (which, in fact, everyone does, but this is not the main goal games). During the first mission, we will be offered a choice of 6 different faces for the hero, which is not bad.
The game introduces us to many interesting personalities who give us tasks: a sorceress; good old “E” (in the game he is now “I”), who hangs out in New Orleans.
Everything looks more cinematic than Gangstar Vegas. Beautiful plans, good animation - all this helps to perceive the game as a film. In general, the quality of the plot has not improved much since the previous game in the series: kill, rob, take, protect - the game does not surprise us with anything extraordinary. Everything is voiced and animated nicely.
Let's move on to the gameplay - the weakest part of Gangstar New Orleans. There is energy in the game, which, moreover, takes a very long time to recover. Missions are various timed tasks: the faster, the more likely you are to get 3 stars for the mission. In general, the missions are more varied than in the previous part, however, due to the absolutely inadequate donation, it becomes difficult to complete the game already at level 4. A new game feature has also appeared: now, having raised our authority, we can capture areas and kill their leaders. This, in turn, brings us passive income.
Unlike previous installments, in Gangstar New Orleans the AI of cops and bandits has become better. It is also encouraging that Gameloft is trying to enliven passers-by on the streets: you can often see young guys taking selfies or drunks staggering from side to side. However, this cannot hide the obvious gameplay problems: very obsessive donation forces us to buy diamonds. Lack of balance, constant lack of ammo, first aid kits, very strong NPCs do not make the game “hardcore”; on the contrary, they make it unbalanced. However, for now this is a soft launch and we can hope that the developers will correct the situation.
Personally, a very interesting change for me was the complete graphical redesign - now the game looks cartoonish. After the announcement, this could mean that now you can save on performance, which means increasing the drawing distance, adding cutscenes, improving animation, adding more people to the streets, enlarging the map.
In general, the animation is not bad. We are now watching how the player beats up townspeople, “squeezes out” cars, kills bosses - everything is beautiful. There are about the same number of people on the streets as in Gangstar Vegas, but Gameloft was completely disappointed with the draw distance. On the iPhone 7, when flying from a helicopter, we see some angular islands, muddy surface of water, boxes of houses. From above, the game looks much worse than Gangstar Rio, as you can see in the screenshot below.
The map in New Orleans is somewhat larger, although it would seem that there was an opportunity to increase it significantly. Now the map is more diverse. We can visit swamps, forests, residential areas, city ports, airports, etc. The graphics in the game are nice: textures high resolution, real-time shadows from everything possible, a dynamic change of day and night, bloom, global occlusion and clouds - these are no longer just ugly textures, they are constantly changing, moving and voluminous.
Physics has also been tweaked. The car behaves better than in Vegas, it doesn't skid like a cardboard box. When we crash into a pedestrian, we really feel him: the car’s movement becomes difficult until we throw him off the hood. Also encouraging is the appearance of a new “action camera”, similar to the camera in a console racing game. game Need for Speed 2015. Every collision is really felt. True, the flaws of the previous parts remain. Quite often you can see how an NPC taxi driver barely touches a tree or pole that is already flying across the entire highway.
Only a few words can be said about management. It's disgusting here. Terrible responsiveness, constant problems: the player cannot jump over a curb or other obstacle. There is no customization for individual control, although this is a useful feature.
What could we expect? Many were waiting for the addition of multiplayer, which would definitely make us play the game much harder and more often; we could also expect the addition of various weather effects, the addition of shops, restaurants, gyms - all this would make the game more realistic and interesting.
In fact, we have a finished game that has completely lost its soul: there are no interesting, crazy features that we see in GTA, just as there are no attempts left to put the soul into this project, the series. The map is absolutely uninteresting from the point of view of studying, although, it would seem, it would be possible to add even some Easter eggs that attract players so much. In a word, Gangstar New Orleans is a casual game, and there is no point in waiting for the next part of the series, because it’s unlikely that anything will change.
SUMMARIZE:
- Graphics - 3/5. Poor draw distance, lack of normal water shaders.
- Physics - 4/5. The problems have not been completely fixed.
- Plot - 3/5 (nothing new is introduced into the game)
- Gameplay - 2/5. There is no incentive in the game to drive around the city and explore it. The player is “forced” to complete tasks and wait until the energy is restored.
- Sound and music - 4/5. The sound quality of shooting, cars, city and voice acting is excellent; There aren't many good tracks on the car radio.
- Average score - 3/5.
The global release of Gangstar New Orleans (Gangstar: New Orleans) for iPhone and iPad took place in the AppStore. New part popular series from Gameloft replaced the gambling New Vegas with sunny Orleans and received many interesting innovations that significantly distinguish new Gangstar compared to its predecessors. Let's get down to business.
First of all, in New Orleans we will have a large map to explore, on which players will be able to freely move by land, water and air. The developers have added a considerable number of different cars, motorcycles, boats and helicopters to the game.
In Gangstar New Orleans, the city is ruled by local bikers, corrupt cops and religious cults. In order to defeat all these unpleasant individuals, we have to organize our own criminal clan. Having armed our guys, we will recapture small parts of Orleans step by step. And now I will tell you exactly how.
For the first time in the series, Gangstar features a battle for areas mode. Gradually, players will have to conquer and hold lands from others enemy clans. The acquired lands will supply the main character with the resources necessary to develop your gang and create new weapons. There is a huge amount of the latter in the game.
In conclusion, it is also worth noting the appearance of the main character's editor.
The creators tried to take all the best that is in the series and create their own project.
Of course, the most important distinctive feature this particular game is that it has a large size virtual world, which is full of various small game elements and details. The gameplay is sure to please even the most demanding and picky gamer. The developers decided to take the graphics component seriously and even surprise the players a little with the quality of its execution. You can evaluate their work yourself if you download the game to your device right now and temporarily become a “bad guy” operating in New Orleans. Yes, this is where the main events in the game will unfold. Let us remember that in the first part of the series, instead of New Orleans, the scene was Las Vegas. As many people know, New Orleans is a port city, for this reason most missions will take place near the port or in maritime territory. This decision of the developers certainly adds a certain flavor to the game and increases interest in it.
The storyline here is simple and uncomplicated. You will gradually understand everything yourself, receiving more and more new tasks as you progress through the game. In addition, you will be able to use objects that fall under your hand, that is, fully interact with the reality around you. Along the way you will meet not only allies, but also enemies. Only you can decide for yourself what to do with them. All missions are accompanied by dialogues between characters, which is also a plus.
What do we get when we download it to our smartphone? this game? Firstly, colorful graphics and large map for research. Secondly, a lot of missions, weapons and upgrades. Not everything in the game can be resolved solely through negotiations. Due to the fact that your hero is again striving for power over the city, he will one way or another have to fight in battle with the sinister mafiosi and their “sixes”. Therefore, there is no way to do without shootouts. Arsenals of weapons should help you in this difficult struggle. You will need to work hard to create own team, with which it will be easier to seize control of the city. A solid fleet of vehicles is provided to help you. Any of the cars can be easily stolen on the street by simply throwing the driver out of the car. In stores you will have the opportunity to both buy and forcefully select the necessary guns. And money is not a problem here. You can earn them honestly by getting a job, or go the other way, engaging in robbery and robbery. We guarantee that with every new location, open for you, game process will become more and more exciting. High-quality sound will also add a pleasant feeling to the game. In general, the developers did a great job here!
When I woke up in the morning I thought, why did I wake up? All my days are spent playing games on phones, subjectively criticizing xy***e games that everyone already knows about, generally not bringing anything new, for the amusement of the crowd, something needs to change, it needs to get better, with these thoughts I went to the toilet and started fucking, as usual, missing because of the erection, and when I came out, the thought struck me, and fuck this idea, and went to write a review of another product from gameloft , let's start with a rating of 4.2, so what the fuck, why so much? The maximum for this game is 3.4. As I understand the world is completely fucked up, they make a person of the year a girl with mental disorders from Sweden who is trying to “save the planet from pollution” and at the same time almost constantly scorches herself with it, they add black people to films about the Middle Ages, New Orleans 4.2 points.
So, perhaps we should start with the plot? Like lol, (now there will be a mega wow joke) they just took latest missions GTA SA (where all we do is capture) and made the whole plot out of them, okay, maybe the game doesn’t shine with a plot, but maybe the gameplay will save it... No, seriously, what the fuck is this? What the f*ck am I so much so that he can’t even hit the hero, or even at all, they shoot somewhere in the other direction, I generally keep quiet about the police, they’re just like f***ing sheep, they run towards the main hero, sometimes even without weapons, they can only kill you at 4-5 stars, and even then, if you yourself approach them, if you leave them, they will forget about you, and damn, such a f*** even GTA 3 can’t afford this, I understand that the open world here is purely for show, since you don’t go to the mission site, you teleport, but still, they could make it suitable if they tried, and so, for open world three
What can I say about the tasks, everything here is the same as with the plot, here they also took the last missions from SA, and made them the main task of the whole game, and of course, there are exceptions, like a race, etc., but the most important thing is that it’s interesting is it possible to complete these missions? No... This is just some kind of bullshit, all the missions are the same damn, you either have to save someone, or just kill all the mercenaries, no variety, absolutely nothing, although you know, I think I know why they didn’t bother with missions, yes yes yes, you understood everything correctly, fucking energy, I understand that I’m swearing too much, but damn, how can we simply express ourselves culturally when we’re not having a game, but a piece of bullshit? g***a, which luckily doesn’t stink, how can you add energy at all, and most likely realizing that this will be rejected by many people, I didn’t like that (I have a specific taste, you won’t understand) I endured it for the sake of the review , but I don’t advise you,
Result: 0/10 damn, well, yes, I completely forgot, we have here, as I understand it, a serious game, but they fucking foist on us graphics from Fortnite and some stupid jokes on the level of Jumble, that's all.. .
